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million
MIHL-yuhn
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1
The number 1,000,000; a thousand thousand.
"The company sold over a million units last year."
"The lottery jackpot reached three million pounds."
2
Informally, a very large but unspecified number.
"I have a million things to do before the wedding."
How to Use Million
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishThe number one thousand thousand — 1,000,000 — also used loosely to mean "a huge number".
Common mistake
Don't add an "s" when a number precedes it as a quantity: say "three million pounds", not "three millions of pounds".
Common pairings
a million dollars
millions of people
one in a million
Word Forms
millions plural
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Etymology
From Old French million, from Italian milione, built from mille ("thousand") plus an augmentative suffix meaning "big thousand".